The Michael J Morning Show Podcast - May 13, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, guys, it's Bethany from the Michael J Morning Show.
You're listening to Michael J and Bethany after Hours.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm ninety three point one WBC. Now, hey, let's start
with that fire in the warehouse.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
You said it was a mattress, not the mattress warehouse,
just a mattress.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
It was so weird because I literally was.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
In that neighborhood on Saturday morning. I showed a house
over there. Okay, So you know how when something happens
where you're.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Like, oh, just there right, or like I just saw them,
or like whenever. That's how I feel.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
So anyway, that that's gonna be Edmund's Avenue at Benloo.
The whole warehouse I started on fire, seven alarms, I
believe they uh and twenty five firefighters were fighting that
yesterday and then they had to move fifteen families. Oh
my god, it's a different, you know, shelter because because

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of the smoke and the so that was a big
situation yesterday and the road is still closed.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Around there, and not only were residents relocated, but Amtrak
had shut down trains as they battled this fire.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's just amazingly big. Two hundred plus firefighters.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
That's like gotta be everybody in the city, right, I mean,
I mention, so we thank you to all those firefighters
that you know, yeah out they're doing it because that's.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
What a job. Yeah it is. I mean, they've got
the training for it.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
I look back at this because my granddad was a
firefighter in Baltimore City back when they didn't wear masks
and they had to climb ladders and go into burning
buildings just breathing the smoke. And it's no wonder he
died from, you know, lung issues. That was just a
big time. My great grandfather, he was a firefighter in
Baltimore City when they had horse drawn why really the

(01:48):
horses had to take him to the fire.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
So no, that's I.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Believe it's hard to imagine that it goes back.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
So just a lot of respect for firefighters in general,
but specifically the tow.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Hundred plus that helped put this fire it down. That's amazing.
That's a job.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Corey Kent, I know, always a new guy. You probably
haven't heard of him, but now you have. You're on
ninety three point one WPOC. Good morning, A rainy start
to it, A rainy day it's going to rain all day. Yeah,
it's pretty messy, sandy, definitely chilly too. It'sam slowly getting
into the mid sixties.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
To keep us in the loop of entertainment and pop
culture and the things we shouldn't care about, but somehow
we really Do's bet on ninety three point one.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Okay, So I'll want your opinion on a lot of
the things that I'm going to talk about right now
seven seven nine six.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
To begin your message with hi or hey, you know me,
I'm always willing to give an opinion. Excellent.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
So you know how yesterday was talking about how Bindi
Erwin didn't go to her dad Stever when.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, she had appendicitis.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah she didn't make it to the gala. Well, Robert went,
that's the other kid of Stever. When turns out he
is in a very sexy ad campaign for a new
underwear brand.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
What and the pictures are really kind of great. So really.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
He's posing with his snakes. So all right, I don't know,
just worth the just worth of Google, you know what
I mean, That's what I'm saying. But I apparently his
dms go it's a water moccasin. Apparently his dms are full.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay, you know what I mean? All Right?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
There's a Wicked concert special coming to Peacock and NBC
where you're encouraged to sing along.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Really are you in? Yeah? I'm always in.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Snoop Dogg is getting his own New Year's Eve special
on NBC. I think that's a big move. Yeah, New
Year's Eve Special, that's pretty big. The Office is getting
a sequel called The Paper, and it's officially gotten its
premiere window. It'll hit Peacock in September. I don't think
there's any way this is funny.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I don't. I mean, personally, I'm not laughing exactly.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
There's a Netflix series coming about Madonna's life.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm over her, Okay, I really am.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
The Social Security Administration has released the list of the
top baby names for twenty twenty four Olivia and Liam
for the sixth year in American Megan No, no, nope.
The report highlights some of the fastest rising names, including Aileeny.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
For girls, Aeny, How do you even spell that? A
I L A n y a?

Speaker 3 (04:38):
You screwed me up? What is the I L A
I L A n y a? Alanie all right?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
And Truce for boys No, no, Okay.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
And lastly, there are some fairly odd street names in
the United States and they're being called out now. Okay,
Arkansas has two of the top on the list. Toad
Suck Road and that's good and far from Poopen Road,
and that's in Fannie, Arkansas. And then there's a Booger

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Hollow Road in six states including Georgia, California, and Louisiana. Really,
so I thought we'd ask everybody around here, was what's
the funniest street name you've seen in Baltimore, Maryland.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, you know, there's some bad pothole roads that I hit.
When I hit po potholes, that's when I start coming
up with all kinds of creative names.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Ninety three point one w POC Traffic. I'd love to
hear it though.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, Alan Jackson, one of your all time country favorites.
Wrapping up an earlier discussion about goofy road names, Bethany,
We've got quite a few calls coming in, but I
just wanted to talk to this gentleman for a second
doing the names of rouge.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
And how my wife mentioned you were doing that.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
But I just wanted to bring one up to you on.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
The way to Ocean City.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
There's a street called a T H Apple.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah or o L but it's going the way down.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
I was sitting. You just wonder what kind of people
live in that neighborhood?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, anybody know anybody on that street? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
That's funny. Hey have you ever heard of this rent
a friend idea?

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh yeah, I've heard of this, and I think you
can rent like in I think in Japan you can
also rent grandpa's, which I think, what would you want
to grant before you know what, like advice or I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
I just watched a movie on Netflix about a restaurant
that opened up with basically known.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
As they call them, Italian grandma's.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
I would rent a grandma to make me a nice
Italian meal? Oh heck yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Really?

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, so I just google it and it turns out
there is a rent a Friend organization and they have
testimonials from people who have used rent a Friend for
various things, like here's one. My husband's company recently relocated
us four hours away from where we were living. My
mother is in a senior citizen home and she didn't
want to move, and I was worried that she'd get

(07:08):
lonely without seeing me more regularly. So she found a
young woman who she's hired to visit her mother twice
a week.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
She said.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
She talks about current events, plays board games with her, and.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's just a young face to keep her mind at.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I wonder if Grandma knows this someone's being paid to
hang out with her.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Maybe she doesn't care to.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I don't know this.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
This is what I think about this, because I'm fifty
to fifty on this. First of all, I think it's
great Grandma needs someone to hang out with her, right right.
But like, on the other hand, is how sad that
we're even turning friendship into capitalism?

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, well, we're trying to find a way to make
money out of everything. It looks like everything. This guy, Steve,
he writes, I'm a movie fanatic. I try to catch
a movie whenever it comes out at the theater. But
I don't like going by myself. I want someone one
who will be there with me to enjoy the movie
as well. Then we can catch a bite to eat
afterward and talk about the show.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Steve he uses rent the friend Steve, it's not real, Huh.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Here's here's where it gets crazy. Dancing is my passion.
I've been dancing for almost thirty years. It's something I
love to do, and I do it daily. I use
rent a friend, you know, because you want to dance
with somebody. Otherwise you look kind of lonely out on
the dance floor. I do have to admit that.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
So would you, guys rent a friend seven seven nine
six two begin your message with higher hate or maybe
you are.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
The friend who Hey, here's another way to work it,
a workout partner, rent a friend?

Speaker 5 (08:38):
Here?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Would you lift with me? We could shot a goose Kla.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
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the air eight hundred three two one thirty six ninety
three with Michael J Andthony.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Turns out people would rent a friend. See we got
several text messages. Of course I'd run a friend. That
sounds like a great idea. And then some cowboy Mike
said that I'm pretty sure I rented a friend in
my twenties, and.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Uh it was a cowboy. Why does he always go there?
Can you calm down?

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Please?

Speaker 2 (09:16):
You know what? And I mean this seriously.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
In some ways, when you're dating, when you first meet,
you kind of are renting each other. Are you? I
mean you're going out, I'm paying for dinner, and it's
like you kind of you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (09:28):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (09:29):
I guess you know what I'm saying. Could we just
be friends exactly? Just hang out? Hit us up with
a text and we want to hear for he was
just kill I was in my boo so I had
been up time.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah boo to fool.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
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That's so good every time it is. I can never
get enough of that Tennessee whiskey. Michael James Bethany here.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Hey, I've been married forty five years and I still
feel like I'm renting a friend.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh my god, Oh my gosh. That's right. In other words,
you're still paying for it.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
Huh oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Well it's kind of how it works.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Well, that's right. That's part of profesor for worse, and you.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Got you got some of the better, but it sounds
like you're dealing with a lot more of the worse.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
Hey, you know, I'm seving me years little what can
I say, you know, Wie, how are you going to
do this together? And got five kids too?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
All right? Oh wow? How long you been married?

Speaker 5 (10:49):
Five years?

Speaker 3 (10:50):
And and and have there been ups and downs?

Speaker 5 (10:57):
I'm not gonna say there wasn't as many ups as
there was down. But you know you got to go
into it and look, go get it.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
E'll be better if you. Okay, I have a question
for you.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
I just read this thing today that said that gen Z,
so the people who are in their twenties right now
right are not prioritizing kids and family anymore?

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Right, So you being I agree with that? You think so?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
So you being seventy married, forty five years, five kids,
if you would you do it all again the same
way or would you prioritize different things?

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Okay I will say this, and I don't mean to
offend anybody. I went into it with a mind that
I was only going to do it once. I wasn't
going to do it multiple times, and I was going
to make the best of it when I went into it.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
That's the attitude. So I mean, he's not going to fail,
you know what I mean, He's going to make it work.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
So I get that. Congratulations man forty five years.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Uh oh, says I'd like to rent a rich friend
so they can take me places.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
And then someone else said, here's the question.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
If you rent a friend and then you hit it
off and become friends, when do you stop paying ninety.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Three point one w POC traffic Never Never, absolutely never.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
I think if you have a friendship where there are
like no strings attached, maybe that's like, you know, you know,
it's an evolution.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
I remember being at the point where it was like,
this is my money, this is your money. Yeah, And
I got to the point where I'm like, no, we're
all in this together.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's one graping pot.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
And now she's like, this is all my money, all right.
So there's a disabled vehicle on a inety five south
found in PULASKI pull.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
Some mar still.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Too.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
I think I'm still breathing. I'm ninety three point one
w p C no truity.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Hey, I want to remind you this is a very
exciting hour. If you can possibly hang with us, you're
at ninety three point one WPOC because it's seven forty
talk about what's trending.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Kenny Chesney Quest for Kenny continues Vegas Baby, how did.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
The boys do yesterday? Did they?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (13:14):
We've not gotten a winter yet.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
If you're the first to tell us where the tickets,
the airfare, the hotel, accommodations, and the tickets for Kenny
at the Sphere are hidden in the DMV, you'll get
another music or in Baltimore, I should say, in this
all region, in WPOC country. Yeah, you will have another
musical clue from Kenny at seven forty.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay seven ninety today, two more chances to guess YEP.
Terrible fire in Baltimore City last night, Adston Avenue at
North Benalou Street. It was a mattress warehouse, not the
mattress house, but a warehouse with mattresses in it that's burned,
and two hundred plus firefighters came seven alarm fire and

(13:58):
they had to move several family's because of the smoke
and the damage.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
And Amtrak had to cancel or postpone trains through the
region because it was just so hot in the flames
and smoke.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
And all of it just terrible. That's wild.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
So a big shout out to all of our firefighters
in Baltimore. You guys have an incredible job, and you
know you don't think about it until something like that
happens and they're running into burning buildings, Yeah, running into them.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
There are a few high profile trials that are going
on right.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Now, talk about P Diddy.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
The Diddy trial, Kim Kardashian's robbery trial in Paris is happening,
and the Menendez brothers re re sentencing hearing also starts today.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
We're going to be busting open that free ticket window
here momentarily, but look what we gotta do.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Ninety three point one w POC traffic. The roads are kind.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Of yucky out there right now because of the rain, guys,
so please give yourself extra time today and like, let's
all be kind to each other on the roads, all right, right?

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Eight ninety five South pol. Yes, you'll mate some good.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Drew Baldridge, he's gonna be in the Music City minute momentarily.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
But first, is it raining where you are?

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yes, it's raining in Dundalk. Yeah, I know it is.
It's raining everywhere. But here's the good news. It's it's
raining into our free ticket window and your tickets are.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Getting a little moist.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
But got old dominion at Merriweather July eighteenth, and I
think you would like that show, right.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
It's awesome.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, which Michael Jay's Music City minute.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
What's happening in country music? Is happening in Michael Jay's
Music City Minutte three? Oh, there's so much going on, Bethany,
All right, let's hear it.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are celebrating their baby girl, Audrey.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
She's got a new song.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yes, it's called our baby Girl's first single, that's what Tim,
That's what Tim's calling it. The song is called I
Am I said, and it comes out this Friday. Zach
Bryan and it is one time duet partner, a guy
named John Morland, are feuding. Money comes between friends, look out,
So what's happened?

Speaker 1 (16:09):
As?

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Is it Zach Bryan feuding with Well, i'd like to
so he made three hundred and fifty million off that
publishing deal, remember that?

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well this dude John posted a dig saying Zach is
an off brand version of himself. And now Zach has said, well,
I'm taking his duet with me off all streaming services.
So no one's going to know who this John Morland
is anymore. So het Ty, yeah, grab your popcorn for
that one.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Roll the dvr. We just heard Drew Baldridge a few
minutes ago.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
He's making his national TV debuta. He's gonna be on
with Kelly and Mark today talking about She's Somebody's Daughter
and tough People. His new album comes out in twenty
twenty six. I also want to tell you today, Morgan Wallen,
our birthday boy turns thirty two today.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
His inaugural Sand in.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
My not Pants, Sand in My Boots See if it
may be The Sand in My Pants, Sand in My
Boots Festival is this weekend Golf Shores, Alabama. It is
going to be nuts, Bethany, listen to this. The lineup
includes Post Malone, Brooks and.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Dun Riley Green Hardy Ella Langley.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
It's starting to sound like Sunday in the country.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
This thing sold out, yeah, almost immediately. Unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
One of the most curated experiences will allow fans to
get hitched on Love Somebody Lane.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Look at that use that's what they love.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Somebody Lane three point one w POC traffic.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
That's funny. You're amused? Yes, I am. Come on over here,
Love Somebody Lane. Baby, Let's say hello? All right?

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Eight ninety five south bound between Moravia Road and the
Harbor tunnel is crawling right now.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
You're if you're in that, you're sitting for about twenty minutes.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
A disabled vehicle on six ninety five, The be Afraid
Before ninety seven has let's.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Say it's pending to the side of the latest of.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Him ninety three point one WPOC real quick some crazy
food texts coming in.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, we were talking about the people who are surviving
on like cereal, candy and bread. Someone said, hey, you
know you said that there's a guy that only ate
McDonald's and he lost weight. The guy on McDonald's sayet
lost weight because he got so sick of it he
stopped eating. Oh, and then someone else said, my husband
only eats steak and eggs. He plays arena football. That's
how he keeps his weights. Wouldn't bind me had a harp,

(18:33):
Records said.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Ninety three point one WPOC happy thirty second Morgan Walland
go ahead, who's this I want to hear from you?
This is Robert.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh and you.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Guys want to sing Happy birthday to Morgan Wallen. Hi,
this is gonna sound good. Listen to these voices, all right, guys,
take it away.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
One two, great epy Birthday to you birthday to you.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Let's go birthday more than Wall.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Happy birthday. That was fantastic, That was beautiful. That was
an ACM Award winning performance. Where else but with Michael
j and Bethany? Would you get that performance right? Exactly? So,
foods we want to bring up a topic because Bethany,

(19:42):
you have heard of people now who have never had
a vegetable in their entire life.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
That's right. And then I read a story this morning
about a guy who exists only on bread and cereal
and candy.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Well, that sounds tasty, and I wondered, what are you
guys eating? Yeah, so who has the weird his diet?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, or like the one that makes no sense at all,
like bread, candy and cereal.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Doesn't sound like you should be able to survive on that. Well,
there was a dude who was on the McDonald's diet.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
All he ate was like hamburgers from McDonald's and he
lost way exclusively.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
So yeah, I want to hear seven seven nine six
two begin your message with higher hay or eight hundred
three two thirty six ninety three who's got who's got
a weird diet?

Speaker 2 (20:24):
We'd love to hear about how strange. Your your menu
is what are you putting in your mouth? Yeah, we'll
get to that.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Plus in less than five minutes, somebody could be going
to see Kenny Chesney in Vegas at the Sphere.

Speaker 5 (20:39):
M and Dixie, Washington Floods, Donald Banks.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Well, good morning to you. What is your name?

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Good morning, Charlene? How are you?

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Charlene?

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Okay, Billy Bob love Charlene and latter's three feet that song?

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I still love that song. Charlne, Charlene, where are you from?

Speaker 5 (21:04):
I am from Dundalk, con all.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Right, Han, we love Dundalk.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
So look, I want to send you to Vegas, another
one of our favorite spots. Did you did you hear
the clue we played a few minutes ago. I did.
That's a good thing. Then I don't have to repeat
I don't have to repeat it. We're going to give
you another clue in case you don't get it this
morning at nine to forty. But Charlene from Dundalk, where

(21:30):
do you think we have hidden Kenny Chesney's tickets?

Speaker 5 (21:34):
I'm going to go with at the dock of the
Bay in Middle River, mar.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
No On the dock of the bay. Was that a
Kenny Chesney song, I don't think outis reading. Dang no,
it's not on the dock of the bay, although you
know I'll meet you there and we'll get some of
those orange sickles. They have done it at hard Yacht Cafe.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
I love the hard Yacht and you know what

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Long lay cold beer on Friday night, A pair of
jeans that fit just right,